Almost four years ago, I was watching Sarah Palin rile up a Clearwater, Fla., crowd with anti-Obama broadsides when a spectator let loose a bloodcurdling cry of "kill him!"

To his credit, John McCain realized the Obama hatred was getting out of hand, and a few days later, when a woman at one of his events called Obama an "Arab," McCain did one of the most honorable things in his political career. "No, ma'am," he said, taking the microphone from the woman and enduring some boos from supporters. "He's a decent, family-man citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."...

The latest sign of trouble came Monday, when a woman speaking at a Mitt Romney event in Euclid, Ohio, said that Obama was operating outside of the Constitution and "should be tried for treason". Many in the crowd of 500 applauded this call for the commander in chief of the United States to be charged with a capital offense.

But Romney didn't push back against this outrage...

Days earlier, Romney made scant effort to defend one of his aides, Richard Grenell, who had been hired only weeks before to serve as a foreign policy spokesman. Conservative groups complained noisily because Grenell is openly gay. Romney declined to push back publicly against the conservatives, and Grenell resigned.

This followed Romney's unfortunate response two months ago to Rush Limbaugh's claim that a Georgetown University student who testified about birth control was a "slut" and a "prostitute." The candidate declined to rebuke Limbaugh, saying only that "it's not the language I would have used."

Some take Romney's reticence to challenge the right as evidence that he is the "severe conservative" he claimed to be. I suspect it has more to do with weakness...

No, McCain was the weaker one in kowtowing to the media and kowtowing to Obama. Romney should have said that Obama spending the country into bankruptcy while cutting defense should be raising eyebrows everywhere and that even “treason” should not be off the table.

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posted on 05/09/2012 12:33:04 PM PDT
by Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)

...Over the course of the primary another more significant problem regarding Mitt Romney, one which is potentially much more serious, emerged. As Romney has campaigned for president, it has become increasingly clear that while he is smart, well-spoken, looks presidential and has an attractive family, he is also not a strong campaigner with little ability to build connections with people or inspire excitement from supporters.

Regardless, Willard has stood up against the Conservatives in his party too many times to count and that's the problem. Millbank knows this but is part of the agenda to cast Willard as a Tea party candidate - the farthest thing from the truth. Actions speak louder than words. Its the GOP-e/lib/socialists that he will not stand up to and why should he? he's one of them.

"No, ma'am," he said, taking the microphone from the woman and enduring some boos from supporters. "He's a decent, family-man citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."...

Part of leadership is slapping down crackpots and troublemakers in your ranks. That’s why (for instance) we cast a jaundiced eye on “moderate Muslims” who don’t do squat to suppress the lunatic terrorist Muslims.

Kind off odd, but both Democrats and conservatives do not like Romney for very different reasons. Dems painting Romney as a conservative (which he is not) and conservatives KNOW he is a liberal RINO at best and already the phony facade of his “severe conservatism” is starting to flake off and we haven’t even gotten to the RNC convention yet.

When Obama disavows the new black panthers, Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and their touch throwers, I’ll take Milbank seriously. Don’t have much use for Demos criticising Republicans and claiming other Republicans should do the same.

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posted on 05/09/2012 12:59:38 PM PDT
by pacpam
(action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)

Gee, wasn’t that rather thoroughly debunked? No audio, video? No recollection of it by the cops and security personell on the scene? Just another of those “fake-but-accurate” tales, repeated by the worthless fraud Dana Milbank and his pals at the rapidly dwindling WaPo.

Perhaps they’ll regale us once more about the racist Tea Party hurling racist epithets at the brave, valiant Nancy Pelosi and her ‘rat stalwarts as they marched through the crowd at the Capitol to vote Obamacare down our throats...*

Pounding Romney at this point (now that his candidacy is inevitable), no matter how justified, serves no purpose other than to help Obama. Like it or not, he's all we have to remove the present menace from office.

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posted on 05/09/2012 1:15:38 PM PDT
by luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)

Yours is the quitter talk. Bashing Romney now concedes the election to the Obamanation. Realistically, there will not be a brokered convention with a conservative emerging as the candidate. I guess that's your and other bashers' strategy: weaken Romney enough for him to be replaced in the convention.Very unlikely to happen, while weakening Romney surely will help Obama.

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posted on 05/09/2012 1:24:52 PM PDT
by luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)

Whoa. I normally am not one to stand up for Mitt Romney. However, in this case, I will. Romney did the right thing by keeping his mouth shut.

What Rush Limbaugh said was correct, and he needed no chastising from the likes of Romney. As far as the comments he did not rebuke, why should he have. Barrack Obama has made it quite clear that he does not have the best interest of America at heart. If anything showed any weakness it was not defending Limbaugh and not agreeing with the protesters.

Romney is spineless, but this isn't the proof of it. I get tired of spineless Republicans who bash Rush Limbaugh just to appease the media, at least Romney didn't do that.

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